Financial Framework (Supplementary Powers) Amendment (Immigration and Border Protection Measures) Regulation 2016 (Cth)

Financial Framework (Supplementary Powers) Amendment (Immigration and Border Protection Measures) Regulation 2016

I, General the Honourable Sir Peter Cosgrove AK MC (Ret’d), Governor‑General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following regulation.

Dated 08 December 2016

Peter Cosgrove

Governor‑General

By His Excellency’s Command

Mathias Cormann

Minister for Finance

Contents

1Name

This is the Financial Framework (Supplementary Powers) Amendment (Immigration and Border Protection Measures) Regulation 2016.

2Commencement

1. (1)

   Each provision of this instrument specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.

Commencement information
Column 1	Column 2	Column 3
Provisions	Commencement	Date/Details
1. The whole of this instrument	The day after this instrument is registered.	14 December 2016

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this instrument.

1. (2)

   Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this instrument. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this instrument.

3Authority

This instrument is made under the Financial Framework (Supplementary Powers) Act 1997.

4Schedules

Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.

Schedule 1—Amendments

Financial Framework (Supplementary Powers) Regulations 1997

1. 1

   In the appropriate position in Part 4 of Schedule 1AB (table)

Insert:

187	Status Resolution and Support Services	To provide needs‑based support and assistance to eligible asylum seekers and other non‑citizens (both in immigration detention and living in the Australian community): (a) as they seek to resolve their immigration status; and (b) as, once their immigration status has been resolved (whether by the grant of a substantive visa or otherwise), they transition to mainstream services in the Australian community or make preparations to depart Australia.
188	Onshore Education Program	To fund access to education and associated needs‑based support for certain persons in Australia without authority, including unauthorised maritime arrivals. The funding is primarily, but not exclusively, for school aged children: (a) in immigration detention; or (b) covered by a residence determination within the meaning of the Migration Act 1958; or (c) who are unauthorised maritime arrivals and hold Bridging E visas.
189	English as a Second Language Program	To provide access to introductory level English as a second language course for unauthorised maritime arrivals: (a) covered by a residence determination within the meaning of the Migration Act 1958; or (b) who hold Bridging E visas.